What Privatizing Social Security
Would Mean for Your Retirement Plans

By

Jonathan Clements Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 24, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Goodbye, Washington. Hello, Wall Street.

I am not a political columnist, and I have no desire to argue over the merits of privatizing Social Security. Still, for those of us who are investment junkies, it's time to start paying attention, because it looks as if this thing could actually happen.